She groaned. Windows didn’t ship with Java. She downloaded OpenJDK 17, installed it to C:\Java\jdk-17 , set JAVA_HOME , added %JAVA_HOME%\bin to PATH. Verified with java -version . Success.
“SDK location not found,” the terminal spat back. android sdk on windows
She launched Android Studio → More Actions → SDK Manager. Under “SDK Tools,” she checked “Android SDK Command-line Tools (latest)” and hit Apply. The download finished. Finally, sdkmanager.bat existed. She groaned